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A iniciação científica (IC) tem como objetivo formar pesquisadores e profissionais que contribuam para o avanço científico-tecnológico do país. Estudos têm evidenciado benefícios da IC: complementação acadêmica e profissional, desenvolvimento pessoal e de pensamento crítico. Além disso, são observadas mudanças qualitativas na relação do estudante com a aprendizagem: o conhecimento ganha significado e sentido, e sua compreensão torna-se profunda. Graduandos com essas características foram descritos por Marton e Säljö (1976) como estudantes com abordagem profunda à aprendizagem. Estes utilizam a metacognição de modo eficiente através de mecanismos de autorregulação. A metacognição foi definida por Flavell (1979) como a capacidade de pensar sobre a própria cognição. A sociedade atual tem exigido, cada vez mais, a formação de profissionais autônomos, críticos, capazes de resolver problemas e aprender para o resto da vida, características presentes em estudantes com abordagem profunda à aprendizagem. Os cursos de farmácia têm passado por mudanças curriculares para atender às novas exigências da profissão. Instigada pelos trabalhos sobre o tema e a necessidade de aperfeiçoar o ensino realizei pesquisa qualitativa através de entrevistas, nas quais os alunos falam sobre a experiência na IC. Pretendo, assim, contribuir para o aprimoramento da orientação como prática pedagógica e para a melhoria dos cursos de graduação. Em 2014, foram coletados depoimentos que evidenciaram a adoção de abordagens profundas à aprendizagem e a utilização de mecanismos metacognitivos. A fim de confirmar esses resultados, foram realizadas novas entrevistas em 2015. A comparação dos depoimentos evidenciou aspectos da orientação na IC, confirmados em conversas com professores orientadores desses estudantes. Os três docentes que participaram desta etapa revelaram e reiteraram ações pedagógicas eficientes: focar no aluno e não na pesquisa, identificando expectativas, dificuldades e potencialidades dos graduandos; considerar a IC como complementação da formação acadêmica e profissional; selecionar alunos com interesse e disponibilidade de tempo para dedicar-se aos estudos e à pesquisa; encarar a defasagem conceitual e procedimental dos estudantes, responsabilidade do orientador, ajudando-os na superação dessas dificuldades mesmo em detrimento do desenvolvimento de pesquisas mais complexas; organizar ambientes de trabalho que promovam relações interpessoais saudáveis. / The purpose of undergraduate research (UR) is to educate researchers and professionals so they may contribute for the scientific/technological advancement. Studies have shown the benefits of UR: academic and professional supplement, personal development and critical thinking. In addition, qualitative changes in the relationship between the student and learning have been observed: knowledge acquires a meaning and has a sense, and his/her understanding becomes profound. Undergraduate with such characteristics have been described by Marton and Säljö (1976) as students with a deep approach to learning. They utilize metacognition in an efficient way through mechanisms of self-regulation. Metacognition was defined by Flavell (1979) as the capacity to think about one´s own cognition. At this time society is looking for professionals who are independent, critical and able to solving problems and prepared to lifelong learning, features that are found in students with a deep approach to learning. Pharmacy courses have undergone curriculum changes in order to meet the new requirements of the profession. Instigated by the researches about this topic and the need to improve teaching, I conducted a qualitative research by means of interviews, in which students talk about their experience in UR. My intention is thus to contribute for the improvement of mentoring as a pedagogical practice and for the improvement of the undergraduate courses. In 2014, interviews provided evidence that the deep approaches to learning had been adopted as well as the use of metacognitive strategies by the undergraduate research students. With the aim of confirming such results, new interviews were conducted in 2015. By comparing the interviews aspects of the UR mentoring were found, confirmed by talks with the professors who supervised those students. The three professors participating in this stage revealed and reiterated efficient pedagogical actions: focus on the student, not on the research, to identify expectancies, difficulties and the potential of undergraduates; they consider UR as a complement to academic and professional education; they select students who are interested and have time available to dedicate themselves to research; they see conceptual and procedural gap of students as a responsibility of the mentoring, who can help them overcome such difficulties even to detriment of the development of more complex research; they organize the work environment to foster healthy interpersonal relations.

A fala privada, de acordo com Wertsch (1980), é definida como um diálogo que o indivíduo promove consigo mesmo e sua função recai na necessidade da autorregulação, autodirecionamento e autorreflexão. Os estudos sobre fala privada de crianças e adultos foram pesquisados por McCafferty (1994), Berk & Spuhl (1995), Fernyhough & Russell (1997), Krafft & Berk (1998), Winsler, Carlton, Barry (2000), Manfra & Winsler (2006), Smith (2007), Day & Smith (2013), entre outros. Entretanto, o estudo da fala privada não foi investigado pelas pesquisas de Língua Estrangeira para Crianças (LEC) no Brasil. Dessa forma, essa pesquisa de mestrado se insere na lacuna existente na falta de estudos sobre a fala privada como uma importante ferramenta cognitiva no processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Língua Inglesa (LI). Nos estudos do LEC e de ensino-aprendizagem de língua estrangeira em geral, a língua é considerada somente uma fonte de comunicação. O propósito desse estudo foi verificar como a fala privada ocorre, quais suas funções e frequência. Para tanto, nove crianças entre quatro e cinco anos de diferentes nacionalidades e línguas maternas em uma escola internacional foram gravadas durante as atividades de Circle Time e Phonics. De acordo com os dados coletados, na análise quantitativa, cada fala foi classificada em fala privada ou fala social com o propósito de descobrir qual criança produziu mais fala privada. Na análise qualitativa havia a necessidade de considerar o ambiente social da crianças para descrever quando a fala privada ocorreu, sua função e frequência. Por exemplo, existem crianças que são expostas a três ou mais línguas estrangeiras ao mesmo tempo em casa e na escola, algumas somente falam em inglês na escola e português em casa e outras falam inglês e português na escola e em casa. Os resultados mostraram que a fala privada foi importante na promoção da autorregulação durante o processo de ensino-aprendizagem das crianças analisadas. Ela desempenhou um papel importante no engajamento das crianças quando estavam aprendendo os sons e as palavras na língua inglesa. Além disso, a fala privada demonstrou uma participação efetiva das crianças durante as atividades mesmo aparentemente não sendo ouvidas pelo professor. / Private speech, according to Wertsch (1980), is defined as a private dialog that the individual promotes with himself and its function lies in the necessity of self-regulation, self-guidance and self-reflection. Private speech of children and adults has been extensively studied by McCafferty (1994), Berk & Spuhl (1995), Fernyhough & Russell (1997), Krafft & Berk (1998), Winsler, Carlton, Barry (2000), Manfra & Winsler (2006), Smith (2007), Day & Smith (2013) and others. In Brazilian research, a gap could be identified regarding the study of private speech in English as a Foreign Langague for Children (LEC) as an important cognitive tool for the teaching-learning process. In these Brazilian studies, language is considered only a source for communication. The purpose of this study was to verify how private speech occured, what was its function and frequency. For this reason, nine children between four and five years old from different nationalities in an international school were voice and video recorded during the activities of Circle Time and Phonics. According to the data collected, in the quantitative analysis, each speech was classified as private speech or social speech in order to count which child produced more private speech. In the qualitative analysis there was the necessity to consider the childs environment in order to describe when private speech occured, its function and frequency. For instance, there are children that are exposed to three or more languages at the same time at home and at school, some only speak English at school and Brazilian Portuguese at home and others speak English and Brazilian Portuguese at home and at school. The findings of this study showed that private speech was important for promoting self-regulation in the teaching-learning process of the children analysed. It also played an important role in children engajament when learning the sounds and the words in English. Besides that, private speech showed an effective involvement of the children during the activities even though they were not heard, apparently, by the teacher.

Le passage de l’oralité à l’écrit et de l’indifférence à l’égard des outils de communication de savoir à leur intégration dans un projet éducatif a pris des siècles et il est passé par plusieurs épisodes. Malgré les différences qu’on peut constater quant aux rythmes et aux modalités de cette transformation pédagogique et communicationnelle entre l’Europe et le monde arabe, cette évolution de la réflexion sur les outils et médias éducatifs a fortement influencé la façon avec laquelle ces populations appréhendent aujourd’hui ces techniques de plus en plus numériques. En France, depuis des décennies, les plans numériques pour l’éducation se succèdent. En Tunisie, après la création en 2002 de l’université virtuelle de Tunis (UVT), on parle actuellement de l’intégration de tablettes numériques dans l’école publique. En dépit des différences que présentent ces deux pays quant aux contextes politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels, nous avons noté des similitudes stratégiques qui caractérisent leurs démarches respectives pour le numérique éducatif. Nous pouvons remarquer, entre autres, une similitude dans l’installation volontariste des techniques pour apprendre accompagnée de discours annonçant plus de facilités, plus de fiabilité et plus de réussite. Dans le cadre de notre recherche, nous nous intéressons à la question de l’enseignement-apprentissage à distance, et aux outils éducatifs mis en œuvre pour ce faire. Nous ne prétendons pas faire une comparaison binaire entre un modèle d’utilisation des technologies dans le cadre de l’apprentissage qui serait français et un autre qui serait tunisien. Nous mettons en revanche en perspectives les deux expériences tout en insistant sur la démarche tunisienne. L’enseignement/apprentissage à distance est une situation de communication particulièrement délicate, d’une part par son inscription dans cette logique de contextes sociaux et économiques, mais aussi par l’éclatement de la notion de l’espace qui renforce le sentiment de l’isolement chez l’apprenant. Pour surmonter ce sentiment d’isolement et réussir son apprentissage à distance, plusieurs chercheurs proposent un processus d’autorégulation de l’apprentissage. Bien qu’il soit centré sur l’activité de l’apprenant lui-même, ce processus insiste sur l’importance de l’intervention des autres usagers du système éducatif (institution et corps pédagogique). Par notre recherche, nous avons voulu interroger cette question d’autorégulation de l’apprentissage dans le contexte tunisien de l’université virtuelle de Tunis. Nous avons alors cherché à comprendre le comportement autorégulé des apprenants tunisiens à la lumière du dispositif (humain et technique) de l’institution. Pour soulever ces questions nous avons opté pour une méthodologie multiple qui réunit observation participante, observation cachée, questionnaire, protocole géode et analyse de contenu. Cette recherche a abouti à trois résultats majeurs : la création de l’UVT est un projet avant tout politique destiné à véhiculer une image moderne de la Tunisie. En effet, à part l’expérience de l’institut supérieur de la formation continue crée en 1984, aucune réflexion autour d’une pédagogie adaptée à l’enseignement-apprentissage à distance dans le terrain tunisien n’a été entamée surtout que le dispositif UVT est basé sur les technologies numériques. De ce fait, le comportement autorégulé des apprenants oscille, selon le degré de contrôle pédagogique qu’exerce le dispositif UVT sur leur apprentissage, entre adaptation aux conditions formelles et création de conditions informelles contournant ainsi le dispositif de l’institution. / The transition from spoken (unwritten, said, told) to written and from the meaninglessness towards the communication tools and then to their integration in an educational project has taken centuries and has gone through several chapters. Despite the differences that can be perceived on the rhythms and modalities of this educational and communicational transformation between Europe and the Arab world, this evolution of thinking about educational tools and media has greatly influenced the way people apprehend these techniques. Especially considering that these techniques are more and more digital today. In France, for decades, several digital plans for education have been implemented. In Tunisia, after the creation of the Virtual University of Tunis in 2002, a project about the integration of digital tablets in public schools had been announced. Despite the political, economic, social and cultural differences between these two countries, we noticed strategic similarities that characterize their respective digital educational approaches. We can note, among others, a similarity in the voluntary installation of educational techniques accompanied by speeches announcing easiness, more reliability and more success. In the framework of our research, we focus on the issue of e-learning and the tools implemented for it. We are not doing a binary comparison between the way that technology in education is used in France and the way that technology in education is used in Tunisia. We, however, prospect both experiences while emphasizing the Tunisian approach. E-learning is a particularly delicate communication situation, not only because it is influenced by social and economic factors, but also because of the bursting of the notion of space that exasperate the learners’ feeling of isolation. To overcome this feeling of isolation and for successful distance learning, several researchers propose a self-regulation process. While it is centered on the activity of the learner himself, this process insists on the importance of the intervention of all education system users. Through our research, we wanted to ask the question of self-regulated learning in the Tunisian context represented by the Virtual University of Tunis (VUT). We then sought to understand the self-regulated behavior of Tunisian students (learners) in the light of the institute system. To raise these issues we opted for a methodology that combines observation, questionnaire, geode protocol and content analysis. This research led to three major outcomes: the creation of the VUT is a political project intended to convey a modern image of Tunisia. Indeed, besides the experience of the Higher Institute of Continuing Education, established in 1984, no reflection on a pedagogy adapted to distance learning in Tunisia has been implemented especially that the VUT is based on digital technologies. Thus, the self-regulated learner behavior varies, according to the degree of control exerted by the VUT environment on their learning activities, between adaptation to the formal requirements and creating informal conditions.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2017-04-12T12:56:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Santos Martins_.pdf: 1989907 bytes, checksum: 57bb0ff1be0aae6044a0baff7d92acbf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-12T12:56:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Santos Martins_.pdf: 1989907 bytes, checksum: 57bb0ff1be0aae6044a0baff7d92acbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-21 / Nenhuma / Diante do atual estado da arte das nanotecnologias, das promessas e dos riscos, o presente estudo objetiva avaliar em que medida as normas ISO podem ser utilizadas como ferramenta para encaminhar à metarregulação, a fim de suprir a atual ausência de marcos regulatórios nanoespecíficos. Para isto, pretende esclarecer o contexto das nanotecnologias, suas características riscos e aplicações. Diversas são as aplicações e as vantagens trazidas pelo desenvolvimento nanotecnológico, porém os investimentos em pesquisas de segurança ainda são proporcionalmente inferiores aos recursos destinados ao desenvolvimento e comercialização de produtos com nanotecnologias aplicadas e, seus resultados não são conclusivos. Diante destas afirmações e da interferência humana na criação de nanopartículas (engenheiradas), interessa verificar sua inserção dentro da zona de risco desenhada pela teoria do risco de Niklas Luhmann, e, analisar os modelos regulatórios de autorregulação e metarregulação. Modelos regulatórios já utilizados pelas organizações através da adoção de ferramentas reconhecidas como normas técnicas ISO, que fundamentam ações a fim de evidenciar a conduta e transparência com relação às boas práticas empresariais no desenvolvimento das atividades. Faz parte da análise proposta o diálogo entre as fontes do Direito e os atores de produção normativa à luz da teoria do pluralismo jurídico, para vislumbrar a possibilidade das referidas normas técnicas atuarem como interface regulatória e analisar nesta interface a eficácia jurídica. Por fim se buscará conhecer a ISO suas normas e seus processos de criação e revisão das normas técnicas, e igualmente estudar seus elementos estruturantes face aos princípios de Direito e direitos fundamentais, para verificar a possibilidade de reconhecer as normas técnicas de gestão da ISO como legítimo patamar mínimo regulatório. A metodologia empregada é a funcionalista, histórico e comparativo, através de técnicas de pesquisa a documentação indireta, especialmente a pesquisa bibliográfica, além da documentação direta a textos normativos e jurídicos além de textos resultantes da produção científica de diversas áreas do saber, empregando-se recursos como a análise de conteúdo. / In view of the current state of the art of nanotechnologies, promises and risks, the present study aims to assess the extent to which ISO standards can be used as a tool to address metaregulation in order to overcome the current lack of nanospecific regulatory frameworks. To this end, it intends to clarify the context of nanotechnologies, their characteristics risks and applications. There are several applications and advantages brought about by nanotechnology development, but investments in safety research are still proportionally lower than the resources destined to the development and commercialization of products with applied nanotechnologies and their results are not conclusive. In view of these statements and human interference in the creation of (engineered) nanoparticles, it is important to verify their insertion within the risk zone drawn by Niklas Luhmann's risk theory, and to analyze the regulatory models of self-regulation and metregulation. Regulatory models already used by organizations through the adoption of tools recognized as ISO technical standards, which base actions to demonstrate the conduct and transparency with respect to good business practices in the development of activities. Part of the proposed analysis is the dialogue between the sources of law and the actors of normative production in the light of the theory of legal pluralism, to envisage the possibility of these technical standards acting as a regulatory interface and analyzing in this interface the legal effectiveness. Finally, it will seek to know ISO its norms and its processes of creation and revision of technical norms, and also to study its structuring elements in face of the principles of Law and fundamental rights, to verify the possibility of recognizing the technical norms of ISO management as legitimate Minimum regulatory threshold. The methodology used is functionalist, historical and comparative, through research techniques indirect documentation, especially bibliographic research, besides direct documentation to normative and legal texts as well as texts resulting from the scientific production of several areas of knowledge, using Features such as content analysis.

La vision illusoire de soi positive (surestimation de soi) semble inhérente à la cognition humaine et fluctue dans son intensité en fonction de l’âge et du degré d’abstraction du concept évalué. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons aux illusions positives, mais aussi négatives, des perceptions que les enfants âgés de 8 à 11 ans ont vis-à-vis de leur compétence scolaire. Ces illusions sont mesurées à partir de l’écart entre les performances scolaires effectives des élèves d’une part et la perception qu’ils ont de leur compétence scolaire d’autre part. Le biais d’auto-évaluation de compétence scolaire, locution utilisée pour faire référence à cet écart positif ou négatif, a été étudié jusqu’alors en considérant les habiletés générales des élèves à l’école (voir Bouffard, Pansu & Boissicat, 2013). Dans cette thèse, le biais est abordé au niveau de matières spécifiques : le français et les mathématiques. L’objectif général est d’appréhender les liens entre les auto-évaluations biaisées de compétence, l’adaptation et la réussite scolaire des élèves dans ces deux disciplines. A un niveau individuel, un suivi longitudinal d’élèves de primaire (N = 677) sur trois années a permis dans une première étude de définir quatre trajectoires développementales du biais d’auto-évaluation : trois trajectoires assez stables, une positive, une modérée, une négative, ainsi qu’une quatrième évoluant d’un biais très négatif à un biais relativement modéré. Après avoir examiné les liens entre ces trajectoires et un ensemble de mesures liées à l’adaptation scolaire de l’élève, nous avons appréhendé dans une seconde étude l’autorégulation et la performance scolaire des élèves en fonction de leur auto-évaluation biaisée. La mise en lumière des liens entre le biais d’auto-évaluation, l’adaptation et le fonctionnement des élèves a permis de rendre compte du caractère plus ou moins délétère du biais selon qu’il soit positif ou négatif. A un niveau interindividuel, une troisième étude a porté sur le lien entre le biais d’auto-évaluation de compétence des élèves et le jugement de leur enseignant. Enfin, une dernière étude a examiné la capacité des enseignants à repérer les auto-évaluations biaisées chez leurs élèves. Si les enseignants jugent mieux les élèves surestimant leur compétence, les résultats de la dernière étude laissent à penser que ce processus est inconscient. / The illusive positive view of the self (overestimation of the self) seems inherent to human cognition. This illusion fluctuates in its intensity according to the age and degree of abstraction of the concept evaluated. In this thesis, we are interested in the positive or negative illusions of self-perceptions among elementary school student aged from 8 to 11. We put the focus in this thesis on the difference between a student's academic skills, measured by standardized tests, and the student’s self-evaluation of his competence. The self-evaluation bias of school competency refer to this gap studied so far by considering the general abilities of the students (see Bouffard, Pansu & Boissicat, 2013). In this thesis, the bias is approached in specific domains: in French and in mathematics. The overall goal is to understand the links between biased self-assessments of competency, student adjustments and academic achievements in these two disciplines. At an individual level, a three-year longitudinal follow-up study of third elementary grade to fifth grade students (N = 677) allowed to define four developmental trajectories of the self-evaluation bias: three fairly stable trajectories, one positive, one neutral, one negative, and the last trajectory evolving from a very negative bias to a positive one. We examined then the links between these trajectories and scholastic adjustment measures. Considering these results, in a second study we examined the self-regulation and academic performance of students according to their biased self-evaluation. The highlight of links between self-evaluation bias and students’ adjustment were relevant to account for detrimental or beneficial nature of the bias, according to its valence. At an inter-individual level, we were interested in a third study on the link between student self-assessment bias and the judgment of their teacher. At last, in a final study, we assessed the ability of teachers to identify self-biased evaluation in their students. In the case of teachers appraising students who overestimate their competence, the results of the last study conducted on this students two years later suggest that this process is unconscious.

Student self-regulation is associated with mathematics achievement in Nigerian primary schools, and formative assessment holds promise for increasing self-regulation. However, to date no research has explored teacher professional development (PD) for formative assessment and its effects on students' self-regulation in Nigerian primary schools. This quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design used Desimone's teacher professional development conceptual framework, Popham's model for practicing formative assessment, and Zimmerman's concept of self-regulated learning. Research questions concerned whether differences existed in teachers' practice and students' self-regulation between two groups of Nigerian primary school mathematics teachers who received variations of professional development. The sample was 13 volunteer mathematics teachers (7 in a workshop plus follow-up group and 6 in a workshop-only group) and 183 students from 7 primary schools. Teacher formative assessment quality (FAQ) data was collected from 3 classroom observations and student end-of-project self-regulation was measured via a questionnaire. Descriptive analysis at the teacher level showed that teachers in the workshop-plus group had a higher level of FAQ than workshop-only teachers. A t test showed students with workshop-plus teachers had significantly higher self-regulation scores on average than students with workshop-only teachers, although FAQ did not correlate with students' self-regulation scores, possibly due to a small sample size. This study contributes to social change by providing supporting evidence for school administrators to provide workshop plus follow-up coaching PD to teachers to increase the quality of formative assessment, which may have implications for improving mathematics achievement among primary students in Nigeria.

Research shows that adolescents with disabilities often lack self-regulated learning skills. Current research further indicates that explicit teaching of self-regulation skills is beneficial to adolescents with disabilities. The site of this study was a local middle school in rural Georgia that did not assess whether or not teachers were explicitly teaching self-regulation skills to adolescents with disabilities. It was unknown, therefore, whether adolescents with disabilities were learning self-regulation skills in school and whether teachers faced problems in teaching these skills. The study sought to explore this gap in knowledge and practice. Zimmerman's self-regulated learning theory and Bandura's self-efficacy theory served as the conceptual frameworks for this study. The research questions addressed middle school teachers' experiences with and perceptions of teaching self-regulation skills to adolescents with disabilities. Purposeful sampling was used to select 8 teachers, including general and special education teachers, who were currently teaching students with disabilities to participate in semistructured individual interviews. Additionally, lesson plans were reviewed to determine the use of planning for self-regulation interventions. Data were grouped into categories using coding and thematically analyzed. The findings indicated that teachers had experience teaching some aspects of self-regulation; however, they reported needing more information about the specific needs of their students with disabilities, ways to fit self-regulation skill instruction into the existing curriculum, and strategies to help their students build self-efficacy and motivation. With an increased focus on self-regulation skills, teachers may see an increase in the academic skills and motivation of students with disabilities.

This dissertation questions whether the current system of journalistic self-regulation in Australia can give effect to ethical journalism given the conceptual paradigms that have informed its understanding of journalism and journalism ethics. It argues the ideological focus of journalistic self-regulation has constrained the current system's ability to encourage ethical journalism. By taking a grounded theory approach to developing an alternative theory of journalism, this study attempts to fill a void in the reform of journalistic self-regulation in Australia by first highlighting the shortfall in recent reviews. It then argues reform must address the ideological focus of the journalism industry. This means looking at the ideologies espoused in the industry codes. It also means looking at the ideologies that frame how values reflected in the codes are interpreted. In summary, my aim in this dissertation is to articulate a praxis-driven theory of journalism by which to examine the suitability of the Australian self-regulatory environment to give effect to ethical journalism. This will be done by: mapping the current system of journalistic self-regulation; distilling the ideological foci of contemporary interpretations of journalism and journalism ethics; postulating an alternative theory of journalism as practice; evaluating the current system of self-regulation in light of the theory of journalism as practice; and recommending an alternative model of self-regulation that takes account of the theory of journalism as practice. The grounded theory approach to this study involves a textual analysis of a representative sample of self-regulatory codes to identify deficiencies in the way philosophical understandings of identity and ethics have been applied to journalism. By highlighting the gaps in the conceptual paradigm that frames the current theories of journalism and journalism ethics, I offer insights into key problems facing industry self-regulation. Given its grounding in substantive data analysis, the theory developed in this study is able to offer significant insights into ways of improving journalistic self-regulation to encourage ethical journalism. By categorising the self-regulatory codes according to ideology, I aim to explain how core journalistic values can be marginalized. Thus, this study aims to reveal problems with the way in which journalism self-regulation has been conceptualised and operationalised. In this way, it uses the tools of meta-ethics and normative ethics to analyse an ethical problem. Thus the grounded theory emerging from this study falls into the conceptual category of applied ethics. This approach offers a flexible methodology that allows the development of an emergent theory based on raw data derived from the various codes that operate within the journalistic self-regulatory environment. The research problem starts broadly, looking at the ability of the current system of journalistic self-regulation to encourage ethical journalism. The focus of the study is on organizational ideology and conceptions of journalism, rather than individual values of journalists. Through a process of constant comparison I will focus the research problem, constructing a theoretical framework to evaluate whether the current system of journalistic self-regulation can encourage ethical journalism. To achieve these objectives, the study will canvass both process (the ability of self-regulation to give effect to ethical journalism) and action (building a theoretical framework for conceptualising reform). A grounded theory approach offers a way of categorising conceptions of journalism and self-regulation allowing me to develop an alternative theory of journalism that promotes a holistic approach to journalism ethics. This study does not purport to offer final solutions to the ethical problems within Australian journalism. It does, however, aim to present an alternative pathway towards reform of journalistic self-regulation in Australia that focuses on encouraging ethical journalism and expanding the theoretical paradigms that shape current approaches to ethics.

This research assessed psychosocial and cognitive factors influencing well-being, utilising a positive psychological perspective. The theoretical framework of this research was provided by two of the sub-theories of Self-Determination Theory – Basic Needs Theory and Organismic Integration Theory – along with Gender Role Theory, and Beck’s Cognitive Triad, with each of these theories relating differentially to the concept of control or self-determination. More specifically, the current research examined the relationship between gender role schema and the experience of childhood trauma with psychological, physical, and social well-being in adults. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 employed a random sample of 410 participants from Central Queensland, Australia, to develop the World Beliefs Inventory (WBI). This 21-item inventory was developed to assess world beliefs, based on a translation of Aerts et al.’s (1994) philosophical conceptualisation of world beliefs into common terminology. Developing the WBI enabled the assessment of world beliefs, which along with beliefs about oneself (operationalised as perceived control), and the future (dispositional optimism) constitute Beck’s (1976) cognitive triad. Statistical analyses indicated that the inventory provided a good representation of the world beliefs construct, as well as possessing favourable concurrent validity (e.g., positive views regarding the nature of the world were associated with decreased frequency of depressive symptoms experienced, and greater general psychological health and self-esteem). Study 2 was designed to investigate the direct and indirect relationships between gender role schema (masculinity and femininity) and the experience of childhood trauma with psychological, physical, and social well-being, being mediated by (a) the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, (b) beliefs about the world, oneself, and the future, (c) the self-regulation of withholding negative emotion (SRWNE), and (d) somatic amplification. Study 2 employed a separate random sample of 605 participants from Central Queensland. Psychological, physical, and social well-being were each assessed independently to determine whether patterns of significant relationships were similar or different across the different types of well-being. In order to test the theories underlying the structural models of well-being, five hierarchical models of each type of well-being were analysed and compared. Satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, and beliefs about the future (dispositional optimism) were found to play a role in the process via which masculinity, femininity, and the experience of childhood trauma influenced all three forms of well-being, while world beliefs were additionally found to influence social well-being, and the SRWNE additionally influenced physical well-being. Results therefore support Basic Needs Theory and provide partial support for Beck’s cognitive triad. They also provide evidence of the utility of the concept of the SRWNE, which was developed in accordance with Organismic Integration Theory.